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Author:   James Aston ,  John Walliss
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.290kg
ISBN:  

9780786470891

ISBN 10:   0786470895
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   25 June 2013
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction (James Aston and John Walliss) “I’ve never murdered anyone in my life. The decisions are up to them”: Ethical Guidance and the Turn Toward Cultural Pessimism (James Aston and John Walliss) Body Horror (Ben McCann) The Spectacle of Correction: Video Games, Movies and Control (Evangelos Tziallas) From Jigsaw to Phibes: God, Free Will and Foreknowledge in Conflict (Fernando G. Pagnoni Berns and Amy M. Davis) A Voice and Something More: Jigsaw as Acousmêtre and Existential Guru (Brian H. Collins) Twisted Pictures: Morality, Nihilism and Symbolic Suicide (Steve Jones) The Jigsaw Assemblage (Jacob Huntley) Work Is Hell: Life in the Mannequin Factory (Dean Lockwood) Monstrous Bodies and Gendered Abjection (Madeleine Smith) Hearing the Game: Sound Design (Jeffrey Bullins) About the Contributors Index

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an expansive, accessible collection of essays, an assembly that will be of significant interest to scholars engaged in the study of the history, philosophy, and criticism of the horror genre --<i>Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts</i>.

an expansive, accessible collection of essays, an assembly that will be of significant interest to scholars engaged in the study of the history, philosophy, and criticism of the horror genre --Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts.

Author Information

James Aston is program leader for screen at the University of Hull film studies undergraduate program. He lives in Willerby, United Kingdom. John Walliss is senior lecturer in criminology in the faculty of sciences and social sciences, Liverpool Hope University, UK.

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